Un contexto funerario, excavado en 1982, en el sitio de Armatambo proporciona la base para describir el estilo de textiles Ychsma durante el Horizonte Tardío. Los datos textiles (tipos de prendas de vestir, la iconografía, la disposición de diseño, las fibras, las estructuras de tejido, hilos, colores, etc.) son suficientemente extensos para distinguir los tipos de textiles Ychsma con textiles de otros estilos, y para identificar textiles semejantes en colecciones de museos. La procedencia de los textiles Ychsma en las colecciones de los museos, es considerada para sugerir el ámbito de interacción de la cultura Ychsma en la costa central.

This paper explores categories and relationships among a group of inter-related figures on embroidered textiles from the Necropolis of Wari Kayan on the Paracas Peninsula. The depictions of garments worn by the embroidered figures, and their correspondence with actual garments, are discussed first. The garment depictions reveal gender and possibly age categories among the figures, while the golden adornments that they wear suggest hierarchical relationships among the members of the group. Additional hierarchical relationships, which appear to correspond with a high-ranking lineage, are carried in patterns of figure repetition on several textiles that display multiple figure types. Pattern is a salient feature of the Paracas Necropolis embroideries, but it is often studied in isolation from iconography. This study indicates that patterns of color, symmetry, and figure repetition are aspec...